TurquoiseB wrote: > At that moment Rama walked by, poked me > in the side, and said, "Yep, that was you." > Did any of the older Rama students point out that the historical Buddha didn't teach reincarnation? There has to be a reincarnating soul monad in order to reincarnate. I wonder if the Zen Master Rama ever read Buddha's First Sermon. There's no mention of a "soul" in the Noble Eightfold Path.
Rick Archer wrote: > > Who knows? It's interesting to think that one's > > physical remains from previous lives are probably > > still scattered around the world in various graves. > > > I was once standing in a museum, on a "field trip" > there with a buncha other Rama students, and found > myself fascinated by an Egyptian mummy. It wasn't > that pretty a mummy :-), just a buncha bones and > brown skin wrapped in rags, but I was fascinated > anyway. At that moment Rama walked by, poked me > in the side, and said, "Yep, that was you." > > That and the proverbial three bucks...Starbucks, etc. > > I personally have no memories of the Egyptian period > or any intuitive "feel" for having been there, so it > might even take five bucks at Starbucks. :-) > > As a kid I had dreams five or six times a month for > maybe ten years of myself swordfighting, using a long > sword held two-handed, in a fighting style unlike > anything I'd ever seen in the movies. It took me > seeing my first Japanese samurai film to "get" the > fighting style, and where and when the dreams might > have been glimpses of. Might have been. I can't be > sure, of course. I've had similar dreams of life in > Tibet, again starting from an early age, again > before I knew that there was such a place as Tibet > or what it looked like. > > The only one I'm fairly sure of is that I paid my > dues as a Cathar perfecti at one point. When I go to > the Cathar chateaux and other areas frequented by > them here in France, I tend to have rather intense > visual flashbacks, and can often tell the people > touring the chateau with me what we'll find in the > next rooms and what they'll look like, before we > get there. None of us has been there before this time > around. They're usually freaked out by this; I have > begun to accept it as fairly normal. Go figure. > > That said, all of these flashes don't really mean > much of anything, do they? They don't help us much > with our self discovery this time around much, unless > we can pinpoint some samskara in the past that still > needs work in the present. > > I'm always amused by the New Age tendency to claim > that they were *famous* people in the past. The Rama > guy claimed he was Cardinal Richilieu; I can't see > that *at all*. And Shirley MacLaine's been any > *number* of famous people. Wasn't anyone ever the > scullery maids and the cooks and the janitors? :-) >
